Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis - that is, enforce confession without absolution. (G. K. Chesterton)

Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis - that is, enforce confession without absolution.

G. K. Chesterton

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